How to get the parent node of the current node?

[Former Member]

Hi all,

i want to get the parent node of the current node and the not the parent of the parent node.

thank you very much

[agentry_src]

Could you provide some more details on what you are referring to?

Thanks,

Mike

[Former Member]

i want to get the parent node of the current node and not the parent of the parent node of the current node, i have a node and all i want is to get her first parent ( first parent from down to up ) ,

thannx for your replay

[Former Member]

[http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_syntax.asp|http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_syntax.asp]

[Former Member]

Hi,

thanx for your quik replay, now i will give more explanation,

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<bookstore>

<book>

<title lang="eng">Harry Potter</title>

<price>29.99</price>

<price>4444</price>

<price>3333</price>

<price>1000</price>

</book>

<book>

<title lang="eng">Learning XML</title>

<price>39.95</price>

</book>

</bookstore>

now the price with the value 1000, how can get her/his first parent, thanks a lot

[Former Member]

Hi

now the price with the value 1000, how can get her/his first parent, thanks a lot

As per my understanding if your prize is 1000 than you need Harry Potter (<title lang="eng">Harry Potter</title>)

that is first node of yor parent node (<book>).

you can use XPATH

"//book[[price='1000']]/title"

Regards,

Manoj Bilthare

[Former Member]

Hi,

thanx for your answer, i am parsing the xml document, and wihle i am get it into my table , as i said i wanted to get the parent node of some special node,

thanx

[Former Member]

Hi

can you disscuss some more details or your xml document.

and also exactly which parent node you need.

Regards,

Manoj Bilthare

[Former Member]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<bookstore>

<book>

<fathernode>Harry Potter</fathernode>

<node1>29.99</node1>

<subnode1>29.99</subnode1>

<subnode1-2>29.99</subnode1-2>

<node2>4444</node2>

<node3>3333</node3>

</book>

<book>

<title lang="eng">Learning XML</title>

<price>39.95</price>

</book>

</bookstore>

the parent node of <subnode1-2>29.99</subnode1-2> is (node1), how can do to get <node1> throw <subnode1-2>29.99</subnode1-2> the sub node of <node1>.

[Former Member]

Hi,

the parent node of <subnode1-2>29.99</subnode1-2> is (node1), how can do to get <node1> throw <subnode1-2>29.99</subnode1-2> the sub node of <node1>.

As per my understanding the parent node of <subnode1-2>29.99</subnode1-2> is book not the node1.

If you want node 1 as a parent of subnode1-2 than your xml will look like this.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<bookstore>

<book>

<fathernode>Harry Potter</fathernode>

<node1>

<subnode1>29.99</subnode1>

<subnode2>29.99</subnode2>

</node1>

<node2>

<subnode1>19.99</subnode1>

<subnode2>19.99</subnode2>

</node2>

</book>

</bookstore>

and also if you want tom retrive float data than refer following XPATH.

"//book[[price='1000']]/price/text()"

Regards,

Manoj Bilthare

[Former Member]

Hi, sorry i 've done a mistake,

exactely as you have said, my xml looks like that, but how can i get the parent node of the subnode1-2

there is a metoth get_parent but it didnt work with me, would you please help me for this,

i am parsing the xml using DOM and abap

thank you very much

[Former Member]

You might want to go to the abap forums. I have done a lot of abap but never had to parse any xml with it.

Something like this will get the name of the parent node in MII.

name(//subnode1/..)

[Former Member]

yes, i understand what you mean, but i cant change the xml, i am not allowd to do that, and there is no way to change it, i have to do this while parsing.